Some love is quiet and polite. Other hearts need a hurricane to blast them open.
Marine biologist Kiara discovered her dream career was a nightmare when her first glimpse of the open ocean triggered crippling panic attacks. Now working as a docent behind aquarium glass instead of diving coral reefs, she's betting everything on a PhD in forest conservation—but only if six months hiking the Appalachian Trail proves she can handle a life among trees instead of waves.
Some heroes are just running from their own disasters.
Search and rescue expert Tristan carries the weight of everyone he couldn't save, especially the best friend who died in a flash flood at sixteen. When two colliding hurricanes threaten hikers in his mountains, he volunteers for the most dangerous assignment—warning those caught in the storm's path.
What survives when everything else gets swept away isn't what you'd expect.
Cut off from rescue with a dangerous stranger tracking them through the wilderness, Kiara and Tristan race toward the only stone shelter that might protect them. They discover that survival isn't about what you can carry in your pack—it's the stranger who refuses to leave you behind, the decision to risk everything for someone else's life, and learning that the strongest foundation isn't built from stone or independence, but from two people who choose each other when the world falls apart.
This is part of the On-Trail Love Adventures series, but the whole series can be read in any order. Contains swearing, steam, violence, and the heartbreak of a side character losing their family, but the MCs get their HEA. Features tropes like forced proximity, survival, strong woman, and he falls first.
Genre: Thriller
Marine biologist Kiara discovered her dream career was a nightmare when her first glimpse of the open ocean triggered crippling panic attacks. Now working as a docent behind aquarium glass instead of diving coral reefs, she's betting everything on a PhD in forest conservation—but only if six months hiking the Appalachian Trail proves she can handle a life among trees instead of waves.
Some heroes are just running from their own disasters.
Search and rescue expert Tristan carries the weight of everyone he couldn't save, especially the best friend who died in a flash flood at sixteen. When two colliding hurricanes threaten hikers in his mountains, he volunteers for the most dangerous assignment—warning those caught in the storm's path.
What survives when everything else gets swept away isn't what you'd expect.
Cut off from rescue with a dangerous stranger tracking them through the wilderness, Kiara and Tristan race toward the only stone shelter that might protect them. They discover that survival isn't about what you can carry in your pack—it's the stranger who refuses to leave you behind, the decision to risk everything for someone else's life, and learning that the strongest foundation isn't built from stone or independence, but from two people who choose each other when the world falls apart.
This is part of the On-Trail Love Adventures series, but the whole series can be read in any order. Contains swearing, steam, violence, and the heartbreak of a side character losing their family, but the MCs get their HEA. Features tropes like forced proximity, survival, strong woman, and he falls first.
Genre: Thriller
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